[Wandering shelves without a plan is just asking for trouble, lest you consult the occult equivalent of wikipedia, so in the abstract, she's glad for the help.

All that means is she sets her book aside to face the newcomer. Although... technically, that would be her, all things considered. But semantics have no place here, or else we'll be here all night, and some of us have things to do.]

Oh? Is it something like a misplaced line that has you summoning the Accursed Being of Sacks, when you meant to reach out to the Accursed Being of Socks? [Purely hypothetical example, here.]